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sour
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sour
     1. adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
           Lemons have a sour taste.
     2. adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
           sour milk
     3. adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
           sour stink
     4. adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
           He gave me a sour look.
     5. adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
           sour land
           a sour marsh
     6. adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
     7. adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
     8. adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
     9. n. The sensation of a sour taste.
     10. n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
     11. n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
     12. n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
     13. v. To make sour.
           Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
     14. v. (intransitive) To become sour.
     15. v. To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
     16. v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
           We broke up after our relationship soured.
     17. v. To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
     18. v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
Nederlands > Engels
zuur
     1. adj. sour
     2. adj. acidic
     3. n-n. (chemistry) acid

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Oh why oh why am I so sour?
No more battles for you two sour pusses this day.
A sour, steely portrait of a violent and deceitful world.



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